BFG Podcast #110: 'Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning, Part One,' 'The Witcher,' and Milan Kundera

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Episode notes
This week's podcast is alive and well! Host Neal Pollack welcomes Michael Washburn to talk about everyone's favorite 90s dorm-room novelist, Milan Kundera. But Kundera was about far more than a 30-year-old undergraduate vogue, Washburn argues. He was a perennial Nobel Prize candidate whose best works laughed in the face of totalitarian oppression and showed a deep warmth and humanity. He understood the human condition as well as any writer has, and was a legitimate heir to Franz Kafka, but without Kafka's austerity. We bid him a fond goodbye.On a lesson serious note, 'Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning, Part One' is h ...   ...  Read more
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mission impossible dead reckoningthe witchermilan kundera